Your Task: Now that we’ve told a story about ourselves, and have told a story about an other, we will use our burgeoning writing skills to make a statement about evaluating something. This will be a more formal paper, with a thesis, than the other two. You will not simply be describing something—you will be evaluating it. You will choose something to evaluate (something local) and write a review from a specific angle, weighing a specific set of criteria you evaluate (i.e. a service, a performance, a space, a gallery, a reading)—please keep it as local as possible. You cannot evaluate movies or music videos for this paper (though we will look at these as examples in class), though you may evaluate a movie theatre/movie theatre experience. I’ll approve all topics.

Purpose and Goals: You will brainstorm a list of topics, and weigh the pros and cons. Then you will determine a list of criteria by which to evaluate your subject. You will also do some light research. We’ll be reviewing the rhetorical triangle, using descriptive writing and the narrative techniques from the revised narrative. We will also use primary sources, field research and library research, as well as process writing, synthesis, citation and summary, paraphrase, quotation. New skills will include identifying criteria, claims and critical thinking, and thesis writing, as well as citation generation, and pay particular attention to introductions and conclusions.

Guidelines: This paper will be submitted to TurnItIn on Friday, October 28th by 12:00 noon. Formatting should be as follows: Times New Roman, 12-point font, 1” margins, double-spaced. Please include a header with the following information: your name, my name, the class number and section, and the due date. Include a brief “Works Referenced” at the end of the paper where you list articles you may have read, or websites you may have skimmed, if any. Please also include any interviews or communications you had with your subject, if relevant.